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Howto validate a backup catalog on a backup disk

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Hi everyone,

I have a SBS 2011 where I have been running Windows Server Backup every night to a local hard drive. I then had to restore the system drive from an image due to a disk failure. So when I start Windows Server Backup it doesn't recognize any backups done from when the image was taken until disk failed. But when I try to do  'wbadmin restore catalog -backupTarget:X' then it says

"ERROR - The specified backup location could not be found or is not a supported backup storage location"

1) The backup drive is shown if I do "wbadmin get disks". But does the disk have to be registred with Windows Server Backup in some way ?

2) Can I restore the backup catalog from a backup disk if the backup catalog on the system drive is ok ? Or do I have to delete it in order for 'wbadmin restore catalog' to recognize the backup disk catalog?

3) Is there some way to validate a backup on a backup disk?


MWebjorn


Window startup and recovery problem

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My window Server 2012 standard(DC) with 4 partitions has a startup problem caused by hard drive problem. I have a backup and tried to load the backup with the windows DVD but the server is not recognising the image on the external drive but when i loaded another system, it showed the backup image. How can i solve the image reloading or startup issues with the domain controller?

Backup failed in windows server backup after some days

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Dear All,

We are using windows server backup from last 1 year, it was working file but from last 1 month getting backup failed. When i changed the destination its work for 3-5 days after then failed. Please find the bellow error report.

Error in Event log: The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎06‎-‎04T20:30:41.958553100Z' has failed with following error code '2155348301'. Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Error in Backup console: there was a failure in updating the backup to remove deleted items....................

The operation was stopped.

Thanks.




Thanks, Manish

Server 2012 Backup to 3TB WD My Book Essentials problem

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Trying to sort out backup issues.  Our agency recently installed six new Dell PowerEdge T110 II servers running Windows Server 2012 Standard.  Each is at a different physical location, but sites are connected via VPN to our network.  We also purchased several Western Digital 3TB My Book Essentials external hard drives with one connected to each server via usb (these are usb 3.0 capable, but the servers don't have 3.0 ports).  We have set up Windows Server Backup to do a daily backup to these drives which initially works on all of them.  We have the data being backed up on our network using another solution as well.

The backup jobs are identical on each machine [Bare metal recovery, System State, System Reserved, Local Disk (C:), and Data (E:)].  Also included is the advanced VSS Full Backup option.  I started remotely connecting to these machines from the main office each morning after backups ran to be certain that they backups completed (which they did initially).  All was OK, then one randomly failed & continued to fail because the drive was unavailable.  Windows Event Viewer shows"Windows Backup cannot find any of the backup storage locations" and the drive does not show in Disk Management.

I then drive across town to the location and have to disconnect power & usb to the drive, wait a little bit, then reconnect and it will come up and be recognized again and work for a few days.  This has happened to all of them but not at the same time.

I've remoted to each server and made sure the USB hubs in device manager have the box unchecked that allows the OS to turn off the device to save power as I thought that might be the problem.  That didn't help.

My next step is to go to the locations and try to run firmware updates on the drives, but I haven't found any documentation as to whether this is really a fix for what is happening. WD tells me those drives might work, but that Windows Server 2012 is not supported. We are a non-profit and cannot afford to replace all of these drives so I hope I can get them working and that the backups are restorable.

Has anybody seen this issue and know what the fix is? This is driving me nuts.  Please help.  Thank you.

Window Server 2012 bad_pooler_caller with error code 0x000000c2 when performing backup

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I have a Window server 2012 VM (vmware) act as a AD server. Recently the perform backup on the server with backup exec

The server will crashed when it is backup. I check the minidump and it shows BAD_POOL_CALLER with error code 0x000000c2 caused by vhdmp.sys. 

I found a hotfix from this url https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2807654, its similar to my issue but i'm not sure its relevant to my issue.

Server 2012 Backup to 3TB WD My Book Essentials problem

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Trying to sort out backup issues.  Our agency recently installed six new Dell PowerEdge T110 II servers running Windows Server 2012 Standard.  Each is at a different physical location, but sites are connected via VPN to our network.  We also purchased several Western Digital 3TB My Book Essentials external hard drives with one connected to each server via usb (these are usb 3.0 capable, but the servers don't have 3.0 ports).  We have set up Windows Server Backup to do a daily backup to these drives which initially works on all of them.  We have the data being backed up on our network using another solution as well.

The backup jobs are identical on each machine [Bare metal recovery, System State, System Reserved, Local Disk (C:), and Data (E:)].  Also included is the advanced VSS Full Backup option.  I started remotely connecting to these machines from the main office each morning after backups ran to be certain that they backups completed (which they did initially).  All was OK, then one randomly failed & continued to fail because the drive was unavailable.  Windows Event Viewer shows"Windows Backup cannot find any of the backup storage locations" and the drive does not show in Disk Management.

I then drive across town to the location and have to disconnect power & usb to the drive, wait a little bit, then reconnect and it will come up and be recognized again and work for a few days.  This has happened to all of them but not at the same time.

I've remoted to each server and made sure the USB hubs in device manager have the box unchecked that allows the OS to turn off the device to save power as I thought that might be the problem.  That didn't help.

My next step is to go to the locations and try to run firmware updates on the drives, but I haven't found any documentation as to whether this is really a fix for what is happening. WD tells me those drives might work, but that Windows Server 2012 is not supported. We are a non-profit and cannot afford to replace all of these drives so I hope I can get them working and that the backups are restorable.

Has anybody seen this issue and know what the fix is? This is driving me nuts.  Please help.  Thank you.

System state backup failed on windows server 2012 (its a domain controller)

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Hi Guys!,

I am getting a failure message while trying for a system state back up on windows server 2012 (STD), he shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:. Event ID 14.

Appreciate your help, if I can get some more insights.

I already tried checking chdisk, shadow copy volume space verification, and this has been tried with alternate hard drives.

Thank you in adv.


Regards, Prabhu

Not able to locate task

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Hi,
within Win 2008 server, I do not know where the relevant scheduled tasks are?


Many Thanks & Best Regards, Hua Min


Howto copy backup disk

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I have a SBS2011 running Windows Server Backup every night to a 2TB disk which is formatted with NTFS and attached as a normal drive. The reason is that I'd like to be able to take offline copies of this disk and put in a safe location in case of catastrophy.

When I look at properties for the drive I see that 'Used space' is 1,24TB, but if I take properties of 'WindowsImageBackup' then 'Size on disk' is only 176GB.

I've changed folder settings so that I can see hidden and system files, but the total sum from the files I can see is 176GB (Which seems odd as there is at least 300GB data on the server). Are there more files hidden somewhere? And if so, can they be copied someway? Or is the backup locked to this physical disk?


MWebjorn

This directory partition has not been backed

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Hello Folks,

i have ADDS 2012r2 in event viewer i got an warning about backup (Directory partition) (

'Backup latency interval' (days): 
90 

Event ID:2089

Any help please what i suppose to do.

Thanks in advance


IT Helpdesk

2012 Essential R2 Backup unsuccessfull with error code 2147942634

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Hi, a planned backup on win srv 2012 essentials R2 terminates unsuccessful with error code 2147942634 and the text "more data is abailable" when beginning backup with the EFI start partition. The other, usually follwing backup-locations, do not start backup thereafter. Every 2nd backup seems to be affeted. Manually started backups work fine. Mike.

Shadow Copies Initialization Failed (Windows Server 2003)

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Hey everyone,

We have a Windows server 2003 box that recently cannot be backed up by backup exec 2010...I isolated the issue but cannot seem to figure out how to get shadow copies to diaplay correctly in the C drive properties (Shadow Copies tab)...is there anyway to rebuild the shadow copies without reinstalling the OS? this server is in a production environment and cannot be rebooted right away...I noticed that the service "Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider" was stopped so I started it and set it to 'Automatic' and just for the record "Volume Shadow Copy" service is started and set to automatic...any info on this would be greatly appreciated...please see screenshot below for the error I am getting....Thanks a million everyone!


Windows Server Backup for Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine - Keeps Failing!

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Hi,

We're attempting to back up parts of a Windows Server 2008 R2 installation running under a virtual machine (*). We've tried using the Windows Server Backup that comes as standard with 2008 R2, but haven't been able to get it to work.

Accessing the server via Remote Desktop, I attempt to back up a folder onto one of my local drives (showing as a network share on that machine) but get "Backup failed to complete" and "The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation". (The share is writable via the server, as I can create and edit a new text file there).

The Event Log isn't much more informative:-

The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎05‎-‎18T10:44:13.093750000Z' has failed with following error code '2155348041' (None of the source volumes were backed up.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.

Any hints as to what might be going wrong here would be appreciated- thank you!

- MM

(*) Which I believe uses a QEMU/KVM setup, though this was set up by our web host and not ourselves.

Window 7 BACK UP TO A NETWORK DRIVE !!! ONLY and not let anyone else delete anything out of that folder that it backed up too??!!

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Hello i have a question please i set up a automatic window back up System image to a share folder and i mapped that share folder to a network drive and that network drive is actually a external hard drive setting at a remote location and it backed up to that hard drive through mapped network drive and window back up system image and everything work awesome and everything!! But im afraid people are gonna go into that share folder where that backed up is located at and delete!.So what i want to do is set a share permission that stop everyone from going and delete or adding anything to the folder!! and the only thing i want to be able to add files to that folder is window back up program when it create new system image how do i do that ??!!

Azure Backup cbengine.exe consuming high memory utilisation

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Hi there

Got Azure backup running from Server 2012 r2 to Azure cloud.  What is happening is that every second day I get a call from the customer stating they are not able to access database on server.  When investigate it was found that the cbengine.exe process memory usage has grown to the point that the server databases become unresponsive.

I have upgraded to the latest Azure backup agent and still this problem.

Any ideas welcome


Backup Hyper V VM

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Hi Server Expert,

Currently we have one Hyper V Server running Windows Server Standard 2012. Inside this server, there are four VM being configured, VM1, VM2, VM3, and VM4.

I would like to check whether it is possible to use perbuilt Windows Server Backup to do a full backup of the VMs, so when there is something happen to the actual server say the VM1 is corrupted totally, i can straight away just use the full VMs backup image created using Windows Backup and restore that VM in full to another new partition created and shutting down the spoilt server and bring up the new server? 

What is the limitations of the Windows backup compared to other backup software like Symantec Backup Exec? For me one of the advantages of Windows Backup is i don't require to purchase license.

Thanks.

Regards,

mattyb70

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I am trying to load some documents from the old hard drive in my old laptop on to my partners laptop, I am not very good with computers and would appreciate any input and idiot proof instructions as to where to find, open and move said document onto partners device //

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error CreateFileW(\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1\,0x80000000,0x00000003,...). hr = 0x80070001, Incorrect function.

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Creating a restore point fails. The following application error is logged:

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error CreateFileW(\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1\,0x80000000,0x00000003,...).  hr = 0x80070001, Incorrect function.

Operation:
   Processing PreFinalCommitSnapshots
Context:
   Execution Context: System Provider

Before creating the restore point the vss writers are all in a stable state:
vssadmin list writers

There are no corrupt shadow copies:

vssadmin list shadows
vssadmin delete shadows /all
No items found that satisfy the query.

I also removed all hidden storage shadow copies in the device manager.

OS: Windows 10 RTM

Server 2012r2 Windows Backup Hyper-V item shows on VM as "offline" when it is not

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This may be a question for Windows Backup; however, I feel it relates to the Hyper-V more. I recent migrated over all of our company's servers to virtualized instances running on a single 2012r2 standard host. Using the build-in Windows Server Backup utility, I created a backup-set for all four servers (1 SBS 2011 server and three supporting application servers). At one point later on, I needed to restore the SBS 2011 server from backup after a failed Exchange rollup. I restored the server to an alternate location and all is now running fine.

When I went to review my backup sets after running the Exchange Best Practice analyzer and having it report that there has not been a database backup in weeks. Windows Server Backup reports the newly restored SBS2011 server as being "offline"; however, it is not. It is running as it should and accepting requests as usual. I attempted to delete the backup schedule and recreate the set; however, Server Backup still thinks this server is "offline". This has me a bit worried as now either my Exchange is not recognizing that it is being backed up and transaction logs are not being written back or, worse yet, my virtual server is actually not being backed up at all.

Can anyone assist me with this issue?

WSB problems inside VM, Ntfs and Disk errors in System Event Log?

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Wondering if anyone can help with backup problem I am having?

I have Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter running on two servers, with Failover Cluster Manager setup. I have a 2008 R2 VM guest, and the VHDs are via iSCSI from a HP P4330 storage server. The VM is just used for File Sharing, and I have tried to use Windows Server Backup inside the VM to backup up some of the Volumes (not backing up everything). It has 3x Data VHDs attached to virtual SCSI adaptors.

I have a similar setup on the same VHs, running Exchange 2010, and WSB seems to work fine (doing full system backup).

I managed to get WSM to successfully do a backup during the day, but the scheduled overnight backups keep failing.

I've had a search through forums and Google, but haven't found a fix yet.

These are the kinds of error messages I get:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Ntfs
Date:          21/07/2015 9:15:48 PM
Event ID:      137
Task Category: (2)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxxxxxxxxxx
Description:
The default transaction resource manager on volume \\?\Volume{0a94ac91-2a9b-11e5-a7f0-001dd8b71c09} encountered a non-retryable error and could not start.  The data contains the error code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Ntfs" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49156">137</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>2</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-07-21T11:15:48.804708500Z" />
    <EventRecordID>6930</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>xxxxxxxxxxxx</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Data>\\?\Volume{0a94ac91-2a9b-11e5-a7f0-001dd8b71c09}</Data>
    <Binary>1C0004000200300002000000890004C0000000009D0000C0000000000000000000000000000000009D0000C0</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Log Name:      System
Source:        Disk
Date:          21/07/2015 9:15:48 PM
Event ID:      15
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxxxxxxxxxx
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk5\DR12, is not ready for access yet.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Disk" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="49156">15</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-07-21T11:15:48.742219300Z" />
    <EventRecordID>6899</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>xxxxxxxxxxxx</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>\Device\Harddisk5\DR12</Data>
    <Binary>0300800001000000000000000F0004C0040100009D0000C00000000000000000000000000000000000524D0000000000FFFFFFFF010000005800000A02000002F8200A1242032040001000003C0000000000000000000000B8695F0E80FAFFFF000000000000000010DEC40E80FAFFFF0000000000000000E0036000000000002800006003E000000800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Log Name:      System
Source:        Ntfs
Date:          21/07/2015 9:15:48 PM
Event ID:      57
Task Category: (2)
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxxxxxxxxxx
Description:
The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Ntfs" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32772">57</EventID>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>2</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-07-21T11:15:48.742219300Z" />
    <EventRecordID>6898</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>xxxxxxxxxxxx</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Binary>0000000001000000020000003900048000000000850100C000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Log Name:      System
Source:        vhdmp
Date:          21/07/2015 9:15:42 PM
Event ID:      129
Task Category: None
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      xxxxxxxxxxxx
Description:
The description for Event ID 129 from source vhdmp cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\RaidPort2

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="vhdmp" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="32772">129</EventID>
    <Level>3</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-07-21T11:15:42.774490100Z" />
    <EventRecordID>6897</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>xxxxxxxxxxxx</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>\Device\RaidPort2</Data>
    <Binary>0F001800010000000000000081000480040000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000200810004800000000000000000</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date:          22/07/2015 4:31:05 AM
Event ID:      517
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:     
User:          SYSTEM
Computer:      xxxxxxxxxxxx
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2015‎-‎07‎-‎21T14:05:19.915878600Z' has failed with following error code '2155348300' (Windows Backup failed to dismount the backup image.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" />
    <EventID>517</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-07-21T18:31:05.986682800Z" />
    <EventRecordID>1983</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="4084" ThreadID="3764" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>xxxxxxxxxxxx</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-xxxxxxxxxxxx" />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="BackupTime">2015-07-21T14:05:19.915878600Z</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorCode">2155348300</Data>
    <Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155348300</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

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